Weekly briefing · Aug 24–31, 2026
Linux mainline: week of Aug 24
A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).
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#TCP
Daily updates and weekly briefings about tcp.
Daily update · Aug 27–28, 2026
Networking fixes: TCP urgent data, GSO overflow, and qdisc lockups
A networking-heavy mainline batch fixes TCP urgent-data corruption, GSO segment overflow, qdisc soft lockups, and several use-after-free bugs.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 22–23, 2026
Networking fixes: SMC memory safety, TCP MSS clamp, and driver corrections
A batch of bug fixes lands across net, net/sched, and Ethernet drivers, addressing use-after-free, divide-by-zero, and DMA mismatches.
Read the updateDaily update · Aug 13–14, 2026
Linux mainline: SCTP LPE and remote UAFs, XDP memory leak, TCP ACK storms, veth GRO stall fixed
Today's mainline updates close a local privilege escalation in SCTP cookie handling, two remotely triggerable SCTP use-after-free bugs, a kernel pointer leak through XDP fragment accounting, and a stack out-of-bounds write in IPVS ICMP tunneling, alongside notable networking stability fixes.
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